overshine

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ shine.

Verb

overshine (third-person singular simple present overshines, present participle overshining, simple past and past participle overshone)

1. (poetic) To shine over or upon; to illumine.
   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     join our lights together,
     And overshine the earth

2. (poetic) To excel in shining; to outshine.
   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Tamora, queen of Goths,
     That, like the stately Phæbe 'mongst her nymphs,
     Dost overshine the gallant'st dames of Rome

References

• “overshine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.